Home Secretary wouldn't walk the streets of Hackney

lgbtpolitics Sun Jan 20, 2008 at 03:21:03 AM GMT Print-friendly version Facebook

Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has told the Sunday Times that she wouldn't walk the streets of Hackney, an area with a burgeoning LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered) population, at night. Ironically, fellow Home Office Minister, Meg Hillier is the MP for Hackney South and Shoreditch.

Asked by the newspaper if she would walk alone in Hackney Ms Smith replied: "Well, no, but I don't think I'd have ever have done."

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She added "Well, I just don't think that's a thing that people do, is it, really?" The interviewer pointed out to her that many people do not have a choice.



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Home Secretary wouldn't walk the streets of Hackney | 2 comments (2 topical)

You don't walk in areas you don't know (#1)

by rwendland on Mon Jan 21, 2008 at 12:18:19 AM GMT

Seems she compounded matters on the Andrew Marr show by saying "You don't walk in areas you don't know, in any circumstances."  Hmmm. The original Sunday Times interview is here.


Re: Home Secretary wouldn't walk the streets (#2)

by jkitleft on Mon Jan 21, 2008 at 06:48:48 PM GMT

Oh dear.... this is the kind of out of touch attitude which will see us further play into the ploy of special interests, and see our numbers hover around the 30pc mark in polls.
I don't see the relevance of saying that Hackney has an increasing LBGT community.


Home Secretary wouldn't walk the streets of Hackney | 2 comments (2 topical)